Jakarta, Indonesia – A robust earthquake shook parts of Indonesia’s principal island of Java and the tourist island of Bali on Friday, sparking panic, but there have been no immediate reports of major damage or casualties.
The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.0 quake occurred 96.5 km (59.8 mi) north of Tuban, a coastal city in East Java province, at a depth of 594 km (369 mi).
The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said there was no tsunami danger but warned of possible aftershocks. The agency initially estimated the magnitude at 6.6. Differences in early measurements are common.
Videos circulating on social media showed local residents and tourists within the neighboring provinces of Central Java, Yogyakarta and Bali panicking as houses and buildings swayed for several seconds.
![Department store employees wait outside a building in Denpasar, Bali, April 14, 2023.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/AFP_33D778U.jpg?w=1024)
![People stand on the roofs of collapsed shops in the harbor after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in Jayapura, Indonesia's eastern Papua province.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/GettyImages-1246942141.jpg?w=1024)
Some places ordered evacuations, sending streams of individuals into the streets.
This country of greater than 270 million people is usually hit by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis as a result of its location on an arc of volcanoes and fault lines within the Pacific basin generally known as the “Ring of Fire”.
In 2004, a particularly powerful earthquake within the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami that killed over 230,000 people in greater than a dozen countries, most of them within the Indonesian province of Aceh.